jeudi 10 mars 2011

Tinky Winky and the tyrants

In my early fifties I was an avid follower of the British Teletubbies program and Tinky Winky in particular was my hero then. Some kind of role model for me so to say.

So, out of curiosity I finally went to read what Wiki had to say about this series and this is when I knew I needed a massive dose of emotional rescue!

Tinky Winky, my hero, was suspected to be a sleeping agent of the homosexual conspiracy!

Jerry Falwell was on the watch and knew there was more than meets the eye behind the cute purple-colored-triangle-antenna-wearing character.

I had previously heard about this Jerry Falwell and I knew he played in the same league as Pat Robertson.

Some people really have to be embarrassed with sexuality and their own body to detect subliminal messages at every corner of the street. These religious zealots are birds of a feather, be they Christians in America, Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia and orthodox Jews wherever they are.

For dozens of centuries, all these self appointed priests ruled the world and behaved as tyrants and criminals towards people who simply were different like that Teletubbies character is supposed to be. So if you meet one of them, run Tinky Winky, run!

Originally the little girl is French and speaks accordingly but in the U.S version she speaks Spanish.

Makes sense. One popular series is Dora the Explorer. She teaches a few words in Spanish to young American kids. In this episode, "muy bien" is taught. It's not anywhere near as good as the Tots though. As you said, "The Brits have long enjoyed a strong reputation for excellence re their TV programs for children and globally for their dramas and historical documents".

Two things. First on Tacite. American scientist Steven Weinberg said, “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Second, British mathematician Alan Turing, who was the father of the modern computer and was largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma code was jailed and finally hounded to suicide by the British government because of his homosexuality.

Flocon, you are wrong all along the line about be me and religion. I was raised Lutheran, went to Sunday services and Sunday school, but as far as I remember, I never believed the stuff.

I read Nietzche around 16 years old and found out why. The only things I remember from my Lutheran confirmation classes is that during the breaks, I smoked my first cigarette and learned what a condom was for and how to use it.

I was rather like Jonathan Miller; I passed my time while I would rather have been at the beach with my friends. I had no friends at the final church my parents made me attend.

The one thing I remember well was when I was taught the passage about "croissez et multipliez" et aussi la mission des apôtres qui consistait à répandre la bonne parole.

I couldn't help thinking: Pourquoi aller em..er les autres qui ne demandent rien à personne and also the Grow and Multiply (?) part which didn't go down well with my already pessimistic nature, like there wasn't enough pain, sorrow, suffering and cruelty in the world.

Coincidentally I also read Nietzsche (Zarathoustra to be precise) when I was 16 (1968). I was enthousiastic about that book because of the lyricism I found in it.

The kind of book that makes a huge impression on young lost minds.

But Nietzsche, like most great philosophers, requires a lot of rereading of their works.

I wasn't concerned with the cigarettes and condom paragraph though...

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No later than yesterday I saw a short passage of one episode of the Simpson and there was that picture of a building in Spingfield with a sign reading: Ayn Rand school for tots!!!

I had no idea the impact that devilish woman had on the American psyche until you mentioned her last Autumn...

J'ai probablement lu les 3/4 des livres de Nietzsche but -as I wrote before- these books need and deserve to be read many, many times donc it's a bit meaningless to have read them only once(je parle pour moi là évidemment).

You two are impressive. I didn't read any Neitzsche (or any other literary writings re sketicism etc etc )until I was well into my thirties. It was when I was around 13 years old that I began to question all of this, but without the benefit of being educated by any profound ideas from any prominent philosophers.

Instead of calling them beautiful, there would be more warrant for describing women as the un-aesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art, have they really and truly any sense or susceptibility; it is a mere mockery if they make a pretence of it in order to assist their endeavor to please

~Schopenhauer

So Schopenhauer feels that women's desire to please is why they are inferior to men?

Another person I may have mentioned earlier is Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President in the 19th century, was the first woman stockbroker and many other things that shocked right-thinking people of the period.